Summary and Changelog

Installing

With this release installing Mapnik has never been easier. For Mac users the popular Homebrew package system already includes Mapnik 2.1. Or, if you don’t want to wait for the compile just grab the one-click 64bit Framework Installer for OS X 10.6 -> 10.8.

For Ubuntu users, we have a PPA ready for you. Simply install Mapnik 2.1 like:

Coming soon

We plan Windows binaries in the next month. We will work to provide two flavors:

Mapnik built with Visual Studio 2008 that will provide python bindings for python.org provided Python 2.6 and 2.7

Mapnik built with Visual Studio 2009 that will provide node.js bindings for nodejs.org provided Node v0.8.x

We also plan an OS X SDK installer (sometime in the next 3-4 months) that will include all headers and dependencies Mapnik uses in order to provide a drop-in development ease for XCode. Note: this SDK may instead target Mapnik 2.2.x development, we’ll see.

Try Tilemill

If you are a TileMill user, or interested in trying it out, the upcoming TileMill 0.10.0 release will use and expose Mapnik 2.1 features. Intrepid OS X and Windows are encouraged to try out the latest TileMill 0.10.x development builds available at the TileMill development snapshots download page.